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Yes. They were very concerned about head to head comparisons because the tools for measuring FPS and stuff works differently.
I'll also add on that there are a LOT of blog posts and youtube shorts about "Game X is 20% faster on Linux than Windows!!!!" that everyone loves to regurgitate. And the reality is that it was a single outlier or it all boils down to Steam distributing "good enough" shaders to Linux but not Windows (and let's not get into the weeds of why).
Whereas GN, especially since "All New Data" a few years back, have very heavily focused on reproducible and "good" data. That is why Steve basically apologized for not having error bars or having what looks like messy data for a few of those runs. And they've done entire videos on their testing methodology that often includes MANY runs to normalize out the noise.
So without being able to explain exactly why? I doubt they will EVER put Windows and Linux data on even the same page of their website. But... someone who cares will be able to see trends.
And yet there's still LTT forum idiots posting on how "Steve is just running a drama channel".